Hi Peter! Thanks for this. I’m going to look at how to rebuild an Archlinux ISO with that extra option later this week and see how it goes. Regards,
Vincent > Le 2 janv. 2017 à 15:52, Peter Grehan <[email protected]> a écrit : > > Hi Vincent, > >> I guess my resolution for 2017 is more clarity. >> >> So what I mean to know with this experiment is simply this: can UEFI >> be used with a serial console (i.e.: without a graphic console), if >> so, is it preferable over GRUB for Linux distros that support UEFI? >> >> Until I am positive about using UEFI over serial console, I will >> stick to GRUB but if someone coule elaborate on this, I would >> appreciate it greatly! > > It does work, but you have to either edit the grub.conf on the install ISO > and repack, or get in quick and edit the grub command line and add a > 'console=ttyS0' option. > > grub-bhyve auto-inserts the serial console line into the linux kernel boot > options which is why it appears a little more seamless. > > UEFI does have the advantage that the system is self-consistent - any boot > filesystem can be used, whereas grub-bhyve only understands the ones that are > built into it. > > later, > > Peter. > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
